Tire-fastener.



UNITED -STATES ATnNr FFIGE GEORGE EDWARD RUMRILL, OFOARROLLTON, ILLINOIS.

` TIRE-FASTEN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. I723,316, dated March 24, 1903. Application filed September 4.,"1902I Serial No. 122,396. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, GnoRGE EDWARD RUM- RILL, a citizen ofjthe United `States,`residing `at Carrollton, in the-county'of Greene and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tire-Fasteners; and `I do hereby declare the `following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This inventionrelates to improvements in tire-fasteners, and especially to that class of tire-fasteners which is adapted also to clench the felly of a wheeh` It consists of a metallic piece notched or cut to a suitable depth upon its opposite edges and beveled, so that it may be driven between the tire of a wheel and thefelly, the project ing ends being then turned overor clenched upon the tire and felly.`

It also consists incertain other novel constructions, combinations, A,and arrangements of parts, as will be hereinafter fullyl described and claimed. j

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a portion of-a wheel, showing my improved tire-fastener and clench applied thereto. Fig. 2isacross-section through the tire and felly of a wheel, showing a fastener and clench in position thereon, the tire in this instancebeingwider than the felly. Fig. 3 is a similar view, but showing the fastener and clench secured to a wheel in which the tire and fellyare of the same Width. Fig. 4 is a top plan view of a fastener having four clenching projections. Fig. 5 is a similar view of the fastener provided with six clenching projections. Fig. 6 is an edge view of one of the said iingers, showing the manner of making the outs in the edge thereof. Fig.l

7 is an edge View of the iinger, showing an uncut edge and illustrating the bevels at the ends thereof.4 f

My improved tire-fastener and felly-clench 1 is preferably formed of a thin metallic plate, which is madewith one or more slits or cuts 2 upon theopposite edges thereof, thecuts extending, preferably, a third of the Way across the plate, as clearly illustrated in Figs. 4 and 5 of the drawings.'` Asimple and convenient manner ofl making thesecuts is to form-them v'by cuttingin any suitable manner a narrow slit oblique'ly to the face of the plate of the fastener. In this.. manner the projecting clenching ends 3 and 4, which are thus formed, are provided with beveled edges extending in the direction necessary for correspondence with the bevels of the outer edges of the plate. The outer edges of the plate are also beveled at a corresponding angle, as at 7 and 8,4 while the end edges 9 and 10 are also beveled. One end edge, as 9, is provided with a much longer bevel than the other edge, as l0, the edge 10 being beveled for only half of its width, as clearly illustrated in Fig. 7. The edge 10 is thus provided with an edge portion which is thick enough to permit of the plate being driven by means of a hammer between the tire and felly offa wheel without injuring the said edge of the plate. If the edge l() were made as sharp as the edge 9, the pounding or driving f the plate would bend and injure the same, as. can be readily seen. My improved tire-fastener will thus be seen to be a tire-tightener also, since it is driven between the tire and the felly and would necessarily take up any slack that exists in the tire.

In applying the fastener for holding a tire in position the sharp long edge 9 of the plate is inserted between the tire and the felly, and the plate is drivenby any suitable implement, as a hammer, between the said tire and felly. When the clenching ends 3 and 4 extend equally upon `each-side of the tire, one set of clenching projections, as 3, is turned downwardly by means of a hammer or other tool along the sides of themfelly 11 of a wheel, and the other clenching projections 4 are turned upwardly in the same manner upon the edges of the tire 12.V The clenching ends 4 prefer= ably bend outwardly and also around` the outer face of the'tire to someextent, as shown at 13 in Figs..2 and 3 of the'drawings. The fastener and-tire-tightener can thus be applied by the use of an ordinary driving-tool, as a hammer, this being ample for forcing'the fastener between the tire and the felly and for turning downwardly andnupwardlyuthe clenching ends or projectionsof the said plate. Of courseitwill be necessaryltoholdlagpiece of metal or other heavy material against `the IOO Vss

clenching projections or the felly of the Wheel upon one side when turning downwardly or upwardly the clenching projectionsupon the other side. An ax or other heavy implement of a similar character will do very well for this purpose, it only being necessary to have something against which to hammer the :fas-

tener in clenching its ends or projections.

The plate may be provided with only one clenching portion at each end, if preferred, as shown in Fig. 4, though it can, of course, be provided with any number of clench'ingprojections. As shown in Fig. 5, the plate may be formed with two cuts, as 14, on each end edge of the plate, forming three clenchin g-'fingers for the opposite sides of the wheel. In this instance when the plate is inserted between thetire and felly the central clenching projections l5 may be turned downwardly against the sides of the felly l1, while the outer clenching projections 16 are turned around the edges of the tire 12. 0f course it will be apparent that the plate may be provided with any number of clenchingprojections, al1 within the spirit of the present in`- vention.

A clench or tire-fastener like that described as my inventionv is adaptable to wheels having various widths of tires. This will be readily understood by reference to Figs. 2 and 3 in the drawings, the fastener being applied to a wheel in Fig. 2 in which the tire is wider than the felly, while in Fig. 3 the tire and the felly are of the saine width. The operation of placing the fastener or tire-tightener in position is the same in either case, and the forv mation of said tightener enables it to accom` modate either a Wide or a narrow tire, as the case may be.

It ywill be evident that one or more of such plates and tire-tighteners may be applied to a wheel at one or more points thereon and that the device is extremely simple in structure and easy of application and yet forms a firm fastener for the tire upon the felly of a l. A tire fastener and tightener comprising a wedge plate formed with oppositely arranged and oppositely-bevele'd kerfs or cuts in its end edges making clenching projections .which may be turned over against the felly and tire of a wheel, substantially as described.

2. A tire tightener and fastener, comprising a wedge-plate formed with inclined cuts in the opposite edges thereof, the said cuts forming clenching projections which have a plurality of beveled edges, which projections may be turned around the sides of the felly of the wheel and around the edges of the wheel-tire, substantially as described.

A tire-fastenercomprising a wedge-plate formed with a comparatively long and sharp beveled edge at one end and a partially-beveled 'edge at the other end to facilitate the plate being driven between the tire and felly of the wheel, the said beveled edges of the plate being provided with kerfs or cuts forming projecting fingers or clenching portions which may be turned aroundY the edges of the wheel felly and tire, substantially as described. A

4. A tire tightener and fastener, comprising a plate having a series of beveled kerfs in its opposite edges extending about one-third of the way through the plate and forming a series of clenching-iingers which may be turned around the edges of the tire and felly of a wheel when driven between the parts,I each of said fingers having a plurality of beveled edges, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aiiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE EDWARD RUMRILL.

Witnesses:

CHAs. FISCHER, TOM G. WILLIAMS. 

